Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 31,656, Thomas Dresser, Mass.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass
Dresser, Joseph
S 31,656
CONTENTS

31656 Rev  INVALID.
File No. 31,656
Joseph Dresser Rev Rev War
Act: June 7 th 1864
Index:—Vol. 2 , Page 114
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Name Joseph Tresser Date Feb. 28, 1916 No. 8316516
Reb. War
Photographic copies wanted of 2 pieces, consisting of 4 pages.
Remarks _____
over
Exr W. Wilson Chief Rev. War Section
APPROVED [Signature]
Serial _____ Chief, Law Division. No. 994

sent to Law Div. for mailing to Feb. 28, 1916.
Mrs S. R. Child 914. Kenwood Parkway Minneapolis Minn.
see Finance Div. clip & correspondence in Rev. Barker Mass. W. 23348.

Maine 11.341
Joseph Dresher
of Cumberland Co in the State of Maine who was a Private in the Company commanded by Captain Rowell of the 1st Regt commanded by Col. Briggs in the Massachusetts Line Troops.
8. M. Private — 25. 55
Inscribed on the Roll of — Maine at the rate of 25 Dollars 55 Cents per annum, to commence on the 14th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 23 rd day of April 1832 and sent to J. N. Hussey. Portland, Me.
Arrears to the 14th of March 1833 53.32 Semi-annual allowance ending Sept 1 13.33
$ 66.65
{ Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by J. T. Sprague Clerk. Book 8 Vol. 1 Page 11

Joseph Dreiser
No 1847.

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
MAINE DISTRICT SS.
At a Special District Court of the United States begun and holden at Wadsworth  Vinalhaven  Portland , within and for said District, on the thirteenth day of August A. D. eighteen hundred and thirty- two before the Honorable ASHUR WARE, Judge of said Court.
ON this thirteenth day of August aforesaid, personally appeared in open Court before said District Judge Joseph Dresher a resident of Danville in the county of Cumberland in said Maine District, aged eighty five years, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress passed June 7th, 1832. That he entered the American service in the war of the
Revolution as a private, in a company of Militia of the Massachusetts line, which company was commanded by Captain John Rose  of  Gloster  Massachusetts . Mark Pott of Gloster was the lieutenant of said company. and Col. Ebenezer Bridge thinks of Chelsea , commanded the Regiment to which said company was attached - that he volunteered in the spring of seventeen hundred and seventy five to serve eight months in said service - that he had been stationed with the company, at Cambridge , three or four weeks, before the battle of Bunker Hill . That he was in the first part of that battle that some officer called out for some one to go for reinforcement early in the battle the officer's name he does not know - that the call was repeated before any one proposed to go - on which he the said Dresher offered his services and went from Bunker Hill to Cambridge as directed . That he returned with the reinforcements and met the American retreating from Bunker Hill as they arrived that he served out the remainder of the eight months for which he volunteered, at said Cambridge , and was then regularly discharged, but had no written discharge - He thinks he was discharged in January 1776 - but is confident that he served as aforesaid eight months. That he was born in Gloster aforesaid, in the fifth Parish in the year seventeen hundred and forty eight - that he has no record of his age, but thinks there is a record of his age on the Records of said Gloster , that he lived at said Gloster when he entered said service, and that he continued to live there four or five years after he was discharged as aforesaid. - that he then removed to Vinalhaven in said County of Cumberland in the fall of the year, where he remained until the Month following and then removed to the same farm he now lives on in said Parish and has lived there ever since. That he volunteered into the aforesaid service - Gen Putnam & Warren who was killed at Bunker Hill , were among the officers he remembers, also Gen Washington was there a part of the time he served at said Cambridge - that he had no written discharge - he says it is some time since he has heard from Joseph Dresher and does not know of any person there alive who knows of his service. That in his present neighborhood, he is known by Joseph Penley , Samuel Tabor , Isaac True . And he hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or an annuity, except the present, and he declares that his name is not on any pension roll of any State, or (if any) only on that of the agency in the State of
Joseph Dresher
Sworn to and subscribed, the day and year aforesaid. Before
Ashur Ware
U. S. Judge for the District of Maine.

We Joseph Penley and Samuel Farbox both of Danville as ensigns both deceased there being no Clergyman in said Danville hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Joseph Dresser who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; and that we have been well acquainted with him for more than forty years last past - that we believe him to be eighty four years of age; that he is respected and believed in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the Revolution, and that we concur in that opinion
Joseph L. Penley Samuel Farbox
Signed sworn to before Aug 17 1832
Abner Wares
I certify that satisfactory proof has been offered before me that the above named documents are true and that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier and worthy of belief. Abner Wares. Judge.
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion (after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogatives prescribed by the War Department) that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier, and served as he states
I, John Nussey Clerk of the District Court of the United States for Maine District, do hereby certify, that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Joseph Dresser for a pension.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court, on this eighteenth day of August A. D. one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two
John Nussey
Clerk of the U. States District Court for Maine District.

I Aaron Dresher of Cape Elizabeth in the County of Cumberland, State of Maine, being seventy four years old last April, do testify and say that I was born and lived in the town of Gloucester, Cape-Ann, Massachusetts, where my home was until the year peace was made at the close of the Revolutionary war. In the year seventeen hundred and seventy five, in the spring, my brother Joseph Dresher, now of Danville in said County of Cumberland, volunteered as a private soldier in a company of Militia commanded by Capt John Rowe of said Gloucester, to serve for eight months in the Revolutionary war. He, soon after, left said Gloucester with said company for Cambridge, Massachusetts. He was gone the eight months and then returned home. I had two other brothers who volunteered at the same time to serve eight months in said company, who returned returned with my brother Joseph, both of whom have been dead several years. I know the fact that my brother Joseph enlisted, went to & returned from said service as above declared, and by reputation, that he did serve said time faithfully and was honorably discharged. There is no person to my knowledge, now living who was was in the same company with him during the service, or who can state the facts more fully than I have done. Aaron Dresher
Cumberland, } Personally appeared Aaron Dresher with Town of New Gloucester } whom I am acquainted and who is a Feby 22, 1833 } credible witness, and made oath to the truth of this deposition by him subscribed.
Before me Simon Passmore Justice of the Peace

I certify that it has been satisfactorily proved to me that the within named Aaron Dyer is a credible witness in matter of fact.
Aaron Dyer
March 23. 1873
Dist. funds for Maine Dist.
Maine District
District Clerk's Office April 5. 1833
In testimony that Simeon Parsons whose signa- ture is to the within deposition is a justice of the Peace & that the same is genuine I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of Office the day & year last above written
John Nufsey Clerk

1847
Apr. 12
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Recd
Admitted Private Sam's 26.16
J. Mussey Portland Me
Hon. Lewis Cass Secretary of War Washington